Cassandra Clare

Quotes

1. "I've never asked, but I'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his shrubbery."

2. 

   "You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.

   She shook her head.

   He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart."

3. 

   "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have asked."

4. 

   "This is bad," said Jace.

   "You said that before."

   "It seemed worth repeating."

5. 

   "He's probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a fur bikini, either,"

6. 

   "I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside, or . . ."

7. 

   "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-"

   He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know."

   "I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you."

8. 

   "Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually, he offered to wake you up himself, but since it's five a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."

9. 

   "Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder."

10. 

    "Is there anything I could get for you?" he asked. "Something to drink? Some tea?"

    "I don't want tea," said Clary, with a muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."

    "Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing."

11. 

    "Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."

12. 

    "I always thought cab drivers didn't pay attention to traffic, but this is ridiculous,"